Lovely, all of them!

Beautiful Jeri! Do you think IHT sported, or could the temp have anything to do with the color?

Carrie -- The heat, most certainly could have altered the color. OTHER plants of IHT are blooming in various pale shades. But none of them are pink. And none of them have triple the normal petal count.

IHT should look like this:

or this:

or this:

so for the time being, I have a mystery.

Jeri, thank you for the photos of IHT. I've grown it here, and love it, but it can't survive our polar vortex winters apparently. Of all the roses I lost, that one hurt the worst. I'm in love with IHT, and will probably grow it again. Who knew high heat could affect color so much. Here in upstate NY, we don't get that. At the moment we are at -4, with a forecast of -17 for tonight. I hate NY lol.

Oh Golly, I wouldn't like that, either.
We USED to have a mild, coolish, rather humid climate that promoted mildew, but was Heaven to live in. That's why a tremendous number of Military retired here. No one here had air conditioning. You didn't need it. Summers were mild, but you did want to have a sweater handy. And all of our rain fell in the winters -- our "cold" season. (It snowed once, when I was 5 years old . . . some 65 years ago!)
So this is a tremendous betrayal of all we have been used to.

Jeri, lacking your years of experience, I am choosing to believe it's a sport. While color may be affected by heat, could petal count?

Jeri, What's IHT? It's pretty. May be I can grow here in zone 6a. Right now is 5F here. Going to the store right now. :-)

Glorious to see roses blooming as I ponder the remains left after the recent partial snowmelt in my town after a trip to TX. A vole or some such rodent ate the roots off several roses leaving full bushes looking like all the other bushes but with the dirt mounds around the plants I investigated and found the rootless bushes. I did go back to the cemetery and took a few cuttings of the roses left. They have a new gardener who does the every bush in a circle thing with a hedgetrimmer and the roses look very sad after years of drought and no irrigation. I am busy rooting them. One bush is sure to die in the next few months. This is where I got the rose I think looks like Hume's blush. It is doing as well as can be expected with many long fresh canes. One rose looks like Duchesse de Brabant, it had a few blooms on it. Was interested to find that almost every nursery I have been to in the Dallas area carries either Chamblee's or ARE roses or both so there are more antique and the new "Earthkind" roses about. Wish our California nurseries carried more of the old varieties. Onj my trip this week I picked upa 'Madame Norbert Levavasseur' and a 'Jeanne D'Arc' at the local nursery in Irving for my daughter and brought a couple cuttings home with me. Both were from ARE. Fun Fun. So happy to see other's roses blooming. It is a treat!

So sorry to hear of the rodent damage, Anne. I lost one rose last year and 6 baby daylilies I was really looking forward to seeing this spring to gophers I guess. We are trying to attract Owls in hopes of reducing rodent numbers.

Jeri, What's IHT? It's pretty. May be I can grow here in zone 6a. Right now is 5F here. Going to the store right now. :-)

International Herald Tribune, barely survived here in my zone 5 (usually) garden. Stayed small here, but still was gorgeous, until we got hit with 2 unusually cold winters here. Stupid polar vortex. Shouldn't be a problem in your zone. Try her, you'll love her :D

A fun fact about the rose, Sean McCann also loved it and stated The International Herald Tribune, a news paper, was his first gig as a young, new reporter. It also figures prominently in all of the new Week's purple roses. It roots SO easily and grows spendidly own root. This is the rose I put twelve cuttings in the mist propagator at The Huntington years ago and removed 13 rooted pieces. A single growth bud on the bottom of one cutting threw a root and broke off the cutting as I removed it from the mister mix. I carefully potted it and treated it as I did all the others. It grew and developed into as great a plant as the others. This one is EASY to root! (hint, hint...) Pixie Treasures had Week's bud patio standards of it one year for Mother's Day. They were gorgeous! Laurie sold every one of them that holiday weekend. Great rose!

My recently purchased IHT is still in its pot and today I noticed a bud on it. I love this rose but my previous plants fried in the heat, and I have yet to decide where to put this one. I whacked back Mrs. B.R. Cant in January and it now has not only leaves but buds and open blooms. Other than that SdlM and Souvenir de St. Anne's are blooming and not a whole lot else. The roses are doing reasonably well in spite of being full of blackspot and El Nino having become El No No in southern California. To add insult to injury it's been hot, as Jeri mentioned, with drying Santa Ana winds.

Thanks carriehelene & Kim for the info. :-) It would make a nice ground cover for some Polar Joy rose trees(light pink). I hope it repeats as fast as Polar Joy, and they all bloom at the same time.....just bought a mister system and timer, glad to know it roots easy, have to find an IHT first. :-)

For quite some time, we propagated IHT and spread the thing all over, every chance we got. I'm hoping to have 1-2 for the Celebration of Old Roses come spring. As Kim said, it's tough, cooperative, and propagates like mad.

In my climate, it doesn't "repeat". It flowers incessantly. The individual flowers don't last all that long, but it takes forever for a cluster to finish and before it does, there is already a new cluster pushing up from beneath it to continue the color. The rose impressed me in print, and with Sean's recommendation by letter, that it was one I imported from Harkness the year it was introduced. I've loved it ever since. It would make a wonderful low hedge.